To be the best wide receiver on your football team, you have to be fast and catch well. You must want to be sure you want to be a wide receiver. You have to practice to be a good one, performing well in running and catching drills.

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Watch professional wide receivers play either on TV or in person.

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Train your agility. The quicker you're able to move, the more likely you will be able to push through a defense.

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Practice your catching. As a wide receiver you'll be catching the ball a lot so practice your catching as much as you can.

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Never back down. You have to practice every day. If you slack off, you will shrink in power and in skill.

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Learn what trick plays are, and know how to execute them. Trick plays are also known as "fakes".

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You can be many kinds of wide receivers. Learn them all.

Split end. A receiver on the line of scrimmage. Meets the rule requiring the seven players when someone snaps the ball.

Flanker. A receiver behind the line of scrimmage. The flanker helps avoid legal contact. The flanker is on the same side as a tight end. The flanker is lined up just like a split end.

Slot receiver. The slot receiver lines up between the split end/flanker and the linemen. With a flanker, it is on the line of scrimmage, with the split end, is off the line of scrimmage.

Slot back. This player lines up in the offensive backfield and becomes important, particularly to a flexbone formation.

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